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Child and Family 4 Psychoanalysis and Culture 8 Groups And KARNACNEW BOOKS FOR WINTER 2013 Child and Family 4 Psychoanalysis and Culture 8 Groups and Organisations 10 Coaching 12 Analytical Psychology 13 Individual Psychotherapy 14 Psychoanalysis 16 Karnac Library 28 Journals 29 6005TS_KR1013.indd 1 11/15/13 8:45:39 AM KARNAC BOOKS Ltd Customer Orders 118 Finchley Road LONDON NW3 5HT Visit our website at: Tel 020 7431 1075 www.karnacbooks.com Fax 020 7435 9076 Call us on 020 7431 1075 Fax us on 020 7435 9076 Email us at: [email protected] Mail us at: Karnac Books, 118 Finchley Road, LONDON NW3 5HT FREE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE ON ALL ORDERS PUBLISHER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR Oliver Rathbone SALES DIRECTOR Alex Massey INTRODUCTION Visit us at the above address, we are open Monday to ACCOUNTS MANAGER Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the shop is conveniently Rachel Rathbone located opposite Finchley Road tube station on the Jubilee and Metropolitan Lines PUBLISHING Kate Pearce All our titles on the website have a Constance Govindin GOOGLE PREVIEW Rod Tweedy button which allows you to ‘browse’ up to 20% of the book before you purchase TRADE & JOURNALS Trade Orders Fernando Marques Marston Book Services, Trade Dept., Unit 160, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SD CONFERENCES Tel: + 44 (0)1235 465 500, Fax: + 44 (0)1235 465 555 Richard Szymczak [email protected] RETAIL & MAIL ORDER All queries on foreign rights for Karnac, HMT and IPA titles Loreta Levenaite should be directed to Cathy Miller Foreign Rights, Unit 18, Siobhan Mulcahy The Quadrangle, 49 Atalanta Street LONDON SW6 6TU Nikki O’Halloran Taneisha Smith 6005TS_KR1013.indd 2 11/15/13 8:45:40 AM Publishing with Karnac Karnac is one of the few remaining independent English language mental health publishers. 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Adamo, a child and adolescent psychotherapist and member of the Tavistock Society of Psy­ chotherapists, and Margaret Rustin, consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she has been Head of Child Psychotherapy since 1986 Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud’s observation of his grandson’s game with the cotton-reel onwards. This book describes the practice of observing young children in home and nursery settings in a sys- tematic and non-intrusive way in order to expand our understanding of their emotional, cognitive, and social development. It uses a psychoanalytic lens to enrich the meaning of what is seen. How do minds and personalities take shape? How can we train people to see what is most relevant in helping children to develop? The chapters range from classic papers by famous practitioners of an older generation to observations completed in recent years in the UK, Europe, and the US. Observation of this sort has also spread to Latin America, India, Australia, Africa, and the Far East. The differences and continuities with Infant Observation are the starting point. What happens when a child starts nursery? How active a play- mate should an observer be? How do we balance the close attention given to the observed child with HILD AND FAMILY HILD AND FAMILY the wider group of children in a nursery? How do we make sense of the marked cultural differences C C we see between families, nurseries, and indeed national cultures? How can we use observation as a baseline for early intervention and how can we research what we are doing? The book is written for the many students and professionals concerned with the care and education of under-fives, and for parents, grandparents, and all who are interested in the mind of the young child. Readers will delight in the children’s capacity for imaginative thought and also find them- selves pondering what makes a nursery a good-enough place for staff and children. 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Read it, use it, and join the millions of other parents who are facing the unique historical challenge of reinventing child rearing, rooted in their own personalities, values, and boundaries. No method can fix our lives with children but, with the right amount of awareness of yourself, you will be ready for building wholesome relationships with your children.’ C C – Jesper Juul, family therapist, former CEO of the Kempler Institute of Scandinavia, and author of HILD AND FAMILY HILD AND FAMILY Your Competent Child Karnac Books, November 2013, 176 pp, PB 9781780491233/£ 24.99 Manual for Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT) By Tanja Göttken, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, research associate and head of the local psychotherapy section at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, and Kai von Klitzing, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leipzig Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT) is an emotion-oriented, play-focused treatment that aims to help the child to relinquish rigidly held maladaptive defence mechanisms that give rise to symptoms and interfere with healthy development. This manual will be of use to trainees and practising therapists alike. ‘Structured brief treatments have surprised all of us in terms of their effectiveness and the enduring benefit they deliver. The authors bring the advantage of this approach to the field of child therapy in an exceptionally well-constructed package that provides an excellent foundation for both training and research. 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